Ariel by Sylvia Plath Lakeside when life was simpler

when life was simpler

emptied of blood

but he's the last one she can have

move house

exploring the ocean’s most notorious creatures

Ariel by Sylvia Plath Lakeside when life was simplerMade up of poems that are so original in their style and so startlingly accomplished in their confessional voice that they helped change the direction of contemporary poetry, Ariel is a masterpiece. New York Observer Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to